“A new ethos of citizenship, partnership, shared destiny”

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather here to confront one of the great questions of our era: As global power shifts toward multipolarity and uncertainty, what force will hold the centre?

We meet at a moment when the ground beneath global order is shifting economically, technologically, geopolitically. The pillars of multilateral cooperation are under strain. Nationalist sentiment is on the rise. The very architecture of global unity is being tested by waves of profound change.